Kindle Notes & Highlights
Mitigation and recovery are also important, and they fall outside the purview of emergency management. Emergency managers and their allied professions typically have little or no ability to control where and how development occurs, standards to which new construction is held, enforcement of these standards, or long-term recovery activities after a disaster, which can take years.
Not to blame, but it’s a misnomer to say unimportant for EMAs not to understand basics of mitigation and recovery.
Her direct experience facing, recovering
Resilient communities will be those that incorporate disaster planning and management into everyday actions, taking care to move people out of harm’s way and create capacity and networks that allow community members to respond quickly and effectively. Research and experience have shown that the key to community resilience is a strong community fabric, where citizens and organizations with a stake in reducing the impact of disasters are acting in concert.
See: Tybee Island Coastal Resilience Plan (Gambill et. al.)
